[mythtv-users] NVidia/overscan problem

[Patrick Ouellette]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 03:38:39PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> 
> > Hee. I actually already have a modeline in an xorg.conf fragment file
> > (SuSE uses the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d approach), but it seems to be
> > being ignored. It looks like this:
> > 
> > [ goes to copy it in to the email. notices the file's been overwritten
> > by something. oops ]
> > 
> > It was the stanza that's in this message:
> > 
> > http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/mythtvnz/2007-January/001812.html
> > 
> > and I put it in 50-monitor.conf, where it isn't anymore.
> > 
> > Well, that might be why it wasn't taking effect.
> 
> Well.  How embarassing.
> 
> Didn't look at my prompt; my ssh session had fallen over by accident, and
> I was looking at X on my laptop.
> 
> Here's that stanza I added to 50-monitor.conf, which appears to be being 
> ignored by autoconfigure:
> 
> ============================================
> Section "Modes"
>     Identifier         "TV-WideScreen-Modes"
> 
>     # 1368x768 @ 60Hz
>     ModeLine "1368x768" 85.5 1360 1424 1536 1792 768 771 776
> 794 -hsync -vsync
> 
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> 
>         Identifier      "LCDTV"
>         VendorName      "Philips"
>         ModelName       "Philips 32PF7321 LCD TV"
> 
>         HorizSync       30.0 - 70.0
>         VertRefresh     48.0 - 62.0
> 
>         UseModes        "TV-WideScreen-Modes"
> 
>         Option          "UseEdidDpi" "false"
>         DisplaySize     697 392
> 
>         Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
> ============================================
> 
> In addition, a very sharp guy in Philips tech support department tells
> me that the HDMI on that TV should not be bidirectional; if X is picking
> 1080i, then it's doing it on its own, not cause the set's telling it 
> to.
> 
> So perhaps the log is wrong, or I'm misreading it, and it is in 720p...
> though that wouldn't explain why small text seems even less readable in
> X than it did with the S-video connection on the other card, and also
> less so than in text mode.
> 

You might want to add 

Option    "IgnoreEDID"     "True"

(ignore all the EDID data)

in place of or in addition to 

 Option          "UseEdidDpi" "false"

(ignore the dpi the monitor claims)


Pat